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A dissapointing let down

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The initial thought of the game seems good enough: trying to break down the all-too-linear approach to first person shooters, and give the player alternative ways to finish off your objectivies. But this is exactly where the game fails. The missions are clearly designed for two specific approaches: (1) Blast your way through (which is remarkably easy) or follow a very fixed stealth route. The first level could be an example. Here you are supposed to assassin an important trial member. You can then either choose to shoot everything that moves, or get on top of a building an snipe the target. Those are basically your two options. And quite frankly, I had expected a much more open gameplay.

The computer A.I. is also horribly bad. On one level, you can easily stand against a corner, shoot two guards that are in the room, and then wait for other guards to come running in and shoot them too (all the time you hardly take a hit). Here's another example: At one point you're supposed to kill a trial leader. After having disguised yourself as a waiter, you attempt to give him a poisened bowl of soup. Unfortunately for the trial leader's bodyguard, he has to taste the soup and ends up dying. There's a cinematic gunfight where the leader escapes. Now here's the thing: after the gunfight, everything returns to normal and all the trial guards in the resturaunt doesn't seem to have noticed anything.

The positive thing about the game are the graphics. The movement of the characters are fairly realistic. I especially like dragging corpses behind me and watch how their bodies bump into furniture and such. If you try dumping a body over a toilet, you'll see how it slumps down the side and falls to rest on the floor. Very nice. The jungle levels are also impressive, with the trees and the plants.

But as they say: gameplay above graphics, and here "Hitman" fails miserably.

Really enjoyed this game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hitman Codename 47 is a very complex game. If you are looking for a game you can fly through, this is probably not for you. If you like a mental challenge, I promise you won't be let down. The graphics are outstanding! The plants sway when you walk by them. The people glare at you when you walk by and their movements are very realistic. The use of the keyboard and mouse together is a little tricky, but I had it down in no time. You can slow down the speed of your mouse pointer in the options. I had to do that because I would move the mouse too far and get off target. Some of the levels have several objectives and there is no in game save feature. It can be very frustrating to redo a level over and over, but I found great satisfaction in finally completing it. I thought this game would be too hard for me to play and I almost quit trying, but now I am almost finished and I have truly amazed myself. I'm not going to go into all the specifics of the game. The other reviews have said it all already. I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this game. Just make sure you have a high level of patience because the answers will not come to you right away.

What I've been waiting for

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It's games like this that make me happy to have a computer. This idea is one that I've never really seen before, yet love instantly. A Hitman, one of the adolescent dream professions comes almost to life in this game, and that's what I like about it. It's got awesome graphics, great sound effects, and a cool storyline. There are only three little things I don't like about it: 1) Unlike any other professional, this Hitman cannot use his hands or feet. However, he can get bad weapons like the Oyabun knife (A bigass tanto blade, from what I can tell) and the Fiber Wire (Fiber, so it won't be picked up by metal detectors). Add to this a score of guns and you have an awesome arsenal. 2) You can't always clean up. For instance, the mission that they give you with the demo (The Massacre at Cheung Chau Fish Restaurant) docks 5000 points for every policeman you kill (out of a possible 7) and 3000 for every civilian you kill (my max is 5). If you get more points taken off than you get from the mission, you lose. 3) I don't really mind this, but it IS the real reason the ESRB exists. Not quite as bloody as Soldier of Fortune, another cool game, but it gets right up there. Bottom line, I don't want my mom to know I have this game. But, for all you hardcore gamers, this is definetly a game to get, Have fun!

another turkey

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I had looked forward to this game for months. It installed without incident. The problem I had was the tutorial, beginning with the elevator (lesson #4). The booklet says to "call elevator". I didn't have to because the elevator was already there with its door open. Then the instructions are to click on the control panel and select "basement level 3". Clicking on the control panel did not work. What did work was to spin wildly inside the elevator clicking on the walls and everything else until it moved. Then I go to the very last Lesson (9) with the sniper rifle. I could not put it down and was unable to finish the tutorial, and as a result could not play the game. This game is loaded with bugs. Don't take my word for it--go to eidosinteractive.com and look at the forums for Hitman. I wasn't the only one to have trouble in the elevator.

A beakthrough game, but not perfect...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hitman is basically a very well designed game, that has a few unfortunate flaws. Chief among them being, lack of savegame feature. Although I feel this makes the game seem more realistic, it also makes for a much more difficult time. This game is truely great, there are easily hundreds of ways to complete it. And Despite what others may say, Hitman has great replay value, as you find yourself returning to the missions trying to find an easier way, or get more money. As for the claim that you need a really powerful machine to run this game, that is not true. Trust me, I have a celeron, with a 32mb graphics card, and the game runs superbly. If you allow the small flaws to cloud your judgement, you fail to see how cool a game this really is. As far as I'm conserned, the thing I liked least about this game, is the title (Codename 47, c'mon...)

Not what I Expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Looking at the box of this game i expected it to be really cool, and from reading all the reviews that say it was good, but when i bought it, it was a very large dissapointment. After the first few missions the game becomes so frustrating, that you will want to break your computer. The controls are very messed up, and the camera fews always get stuck on walls so you can not see anything. This game is frustrating because 90% of the game is trial and error. If you go the wrong way you become ..., because most of the missions are timed ... so you lose the mission. I got to admit the visuals in this game are very eye pleasing, but it doesn't not make this game worth the ... that it is. HC47 also had tons of glitches and bugs in its system which eventually ... the ... out of you. Well my opinion is not to buy this game, but u can try it for yourself, and see what you think

COULD NOT GET BETTER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

AFTER PLAYING MAX PAYNE (THE NUMBER 2 BEST GAME I HAVE)THIS WAS AN EXCELLENT TREAT. REALISTIC, AND HARD. I HAVE ALMOST 50 SHOTER GAMES, AND THIS IS THE BEST ONE. WELL WORTH THE MONEY.

Reviewed by a Playstation Fanatic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Hitman (code name 47) was cloned by a scientist for the purpose of assassinating worldwide terrorists, gunrunners, and drug lords. Mr. 47 works under cover of a mysterious agency that assigns him on missions around the world to takeout the most wanted criminals, and is rewarded with large sums of money per hit that can exceed thirty thousand dollars. But this is no takeoff of any James Bond movie. 47 is much too inhuman to thrill-ride all the ladies, and was designed to feel no emotion, or desire in an underground laboratory.

Now some details on game play itself. Expenses at times are taken out of your income if you accidentally-or purposely-kill unnecessary targets such as police officers or civilians that often stand in your way (can't buy all the best guns if you blow all your money on just killing people, which includes sniper rifles, and an assortment of automatics, some of which come with silencer attachments to further improve your performance as a professional killer). The game encourages you to find alternate ways that are not always so obvious to make your hit. Encouraging stealth and perfection. Hence, the game's primary challenge. Besides, if you just open fire on anything that moves in this game (like what we see with too many other games) you'll maybe live 10 or 15 seconds after the first shot. Stealth is the key. Every mission can be beaten without you ever getting shot, or spotted (I know people don't believe that, but believe it or not I can make those Columbian levels look as easy as the very first mission). Ways to avoid detection include hiding the bodies of the people you kill, dressing as the enemy (gangs and terrorist groups alike often have certain dress-code and you can take the clothes of any person you kill in this game) poisoning, waiting for certain patrolmen guarding your main target to separate and taking them out one by one with a silenced pistol. And many other ways, depending on the situation.

The AI of all moving people in this game is superb. You can literally hide behind any given object (dresser, tree, bookshelf) after you have been discovered, and the enemies won't know where you are until they see you, even when they are in the same room. In most games they just come right to you. If their backs are turned you can sneak up on them to either slit their throat or strangulate them, which I've seen in a few other games, but not to this astounding degree. If you sniper someone from afar, people will gather around the body (which could be helpful if the congregated group of people are all people you prefer dead). Your un-silenced weapons will be heard if fired and frighten civilians or alert the enemy. People turn their heads to look at you if you walk by. If one yelps too loud in the instant it takes you to pull out your gun and shoot him, others will come. The thing is, they REACT! They are not just mindless, close-knitted colored pixels on the screen. They react to sound, to your presence, and to the things you do. In fact, the AI is too good. There have been incidents where I was following someone too close and the draw of my weapon was actually HEARD, causing the person I pursued to turn around, to see the gun in my hand, and to draw a weapon of his own in the second it took me to shoot him smack-dead in the face.

Close one. Amazing how many miles per hour your heart can accelerate in a matter of seconds...

This game can be sick, challenging, exciting, and most of all, engrossing. You can just kiss all the hours of a whole weekend away playing this beautiful game. The only drawback is that there is no in-game save. It saves automatically after you complete each mission. Hitman 2 is just as good, if not better (some of the quirks in the AI in Hitman 1 was corrected in Hitman 2, the graphics are ten times better and there is in-game save in Silent Assassin). Hitman 3 is out this Spring. Don't neglect this series. Buy it now. Hitman 1 is available for PC only. I would have never played it if it were not for playing Hitman 2 on playstation, the best game console ever.

Is it really worth your money? read on!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got this game cause my cousin gave it to me. The concept sounded awesome - like you're this hitman going around doing missions and killing people. To be honest, I have not finished the game. The action is very slow paced. You have to plan things out. There's no way you can finish a map the first try cause you have to know the pattern. For example, when the limo driver makes his routine routes, or when the bad guys go inside the shops, or when the bystanders are not looking, etc.... At first it starts out really fun - like everyone has mentioned. But as I progressed in the game, the missions got a lot bigger, harder, and more complex. Even the maps get more bigger and it's so big that it takes forever to get around. sometimes you have to do 6 sub-missions on one map, which can suck because if you screw up on the 4th sub-mission, for example, then you gotta start all over again. basically it's a lot of trial and error. I'm more into fast paced games like Half life and counter-strike and Unreal tournament and Delta Force so this wasn't my type of game. I basically got bored of this game and it does get frustrating. Maybe it'll be better with a cheat or whatever. But I'm going back to playing counter-strike and Unreal Tournament. It's time to pass this game to my other cousin.

Hitman Codename: 47 full version review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you liked the theif series you will love this game. It was developed by IO interactive, people I have never heard of, but this was a great game. It does not have multiplayer capabilities, but it's single player game is great. The only thing that would turn some off is the lack of an in game save feature. This game requires patience to enjoy, you need to scout the locations to determine how to make the hit (there are multiple ways to terminate the mark) then carefully execute. Need to pass through a metal detector? Can't bring guns, but you could bring the piano wire and strangle a gaurd, take his clothes, drag him to the bathroom and hide him in the stall. Then you can access other areas and maybe get close enough to make the hit...But then you need to get out alive. The game maybe short, but there are few flaws and the missions are so fun that most will play their favorite missions again. Let's just hope iO releases the software developers kit! The Hitman community would explode with user created missions and MOD's. I hope you enjoyed this game as much as I did.

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